been predicted were fulfilled, and disguised wolves had come, and false f. 72 a Christs and lying prophets had appeared; for this was known and manifest that when (S. + the times) should approach (S. + and His coming be near, there should be more and worse than these, from whom may the Lord God therefore deliver you !) may they also repent of their godless error, and by much admonition and by the word of doctrine of prayer we have cured and healed and forgiven in the Church1. Those who 2 restrain the word2 by the perverted word of error, and there is no cure for them, we put out, that they may not 3lead the holy Church astray3, the pure Church of God ; lest like a hateful leprosy and like a cancerous ulcer it should get to every one ; but that pure and unpolluted and passionless and spotless, the Church may be sealed to the Lord God, they who are in every place and in every city, and in all the habitable part of the world. We make and testify ; and we leave this Didascalia, holy and Catholic, justly and righteously to the Catholic Church, and for the assurance of believers.